Advance Care Planning Communication Skills for Success: The Five Wishes Framework

Course overview

Every person should be encouraged to have meaningful advance care planning conversations with their health providers to explore and discuss their goals, values, and understanding of their health to guide future end-of-life treatment decisions. For health providers to engage in effective and compassionate advance care planning conversations, they must develop specific communication skills as well as a level of comfort with having these discussions. This course provides an overview of essential skills and considerations for engaging in sensitive and effective advance care planning conversations. You will learn the most important decision domains to address as outlined in the FIVE WISHES framework, how to demonstrate compassionate communication, and conversation skills specific to eliciting values-based end-of-life care decisions. The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals in all settings with enhanced communication skills related to advance care planning.